I am unable to connect to my wireless internet connection in puppy (4.00). This is especially annoying since most of Puppy's documentation is now online. The connection uses a Motorola Canopy antenna (radio). Running the networking wizard to connect to the antenna (via DHCP) tells me that the connection has been configured correctly, but that is incorrect. (Incidentally, the wizard in my hard drive installation of puppy 1.07 correctly states that the configuration was unsuccessful.) The internet works fine in Windows 98 (installed on the same computer). Here is some information that hopefully will be helpful in solving this problem:

Apparently we have a bit of a misunderstanding because I was not specific enough. My ISP provides wireless high speed internet to rural users (such as myself). The antenna (on the roof of the house) is pointed at their tower. I am supposed to connect my computer to the antenna using a standard Ethernet cable, using DHCP to acquire an IP address. (The antenna also gets its power from the Ethernet cable, if that matters.)

As far as what happens when I use the wizard (as I said earlier):

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Running the networking wizard to connect to the antenna (via DHCP) tells me that the connection has been configured correctly, but that is incorrect.

So this is your setup:
antenna-modem/router---eth cable------eth port-PC
The modem/router gives you: inet addr:169.254.1.219
Normally I would say this is a APIPA, but it could that your ISP is using this range.
Ask you ISP if that address is a valid one.
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I tried the newest version of the network wizard (today's version), but nothing changed. The Puppy Network Wizard sees my Conexant Ethernet card and reports success, but there is no connection. I tried this on a pristine (no previously saved files) session. Here is the pertinent part of the /var/log/messages file:

I realize that, Béèm. You posted before I could submit my second post. I checked the notes I made from when the guy came out to install the internet. According to the notes, the IP address should be '66.whatever'.

From what I can see the gateway is not giving you an IP address. The IP address should look something like 192.168.x.xx (it may not). Go in to windows and connect, Go to control panel, network connections, right click your network adapter, click properties. Click (highlight) Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) then click properties. (Btw, this is for XP but I'm sure '98 is similar.) Better still, because if windows finds Ip automatically it won't be there, open a dos window and type ipconfig, the IP numbers should be there. Write down Your IP address, the subnet mask, and the default gateway IP.
Now go to the network wizard.

If dhcpcd doesn't work try to force an IP adress using a static IP using the numbers you wrote down from windows.
Good luck! Let me know if this helps.

Update. From my experience puppy looks to connect to a 192.168.0.1 gateway IP address. I don't know this for sure but I suspect it. I have a software router (Synet Windy31) on my wife's XP box (soon to be puppy with wine!) that distributes my wireless broadband. It's IP is 192.168.33.1, subnet 255.255.255.0 Subsequently all machines on my network must have an IP of 192.168.33.xx. Once I connect once forcing an IP later on dhcpcd seems to work, (maybe it find's the old IP lease in `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info' )Last edited by 01micko on Mon 27 Oct 2008, 07:47; edited 1 time in total

You last answer reassured me.
That 169.xx.xx.xx is a APIPA, as the technician spoke of 66.xx.xx.xx

OK so far.

Does your antenna-router-gateway connect automatically to the ISP?
If yes so far your connection is ok, but the antenna-router-gateway doesn't seem to give an IP to the eth device.

Now try to find the IP of that antenna-router-gateway. f.e. something like 192.168.xx.1

You could set manually the eth device at f.e. 192.168.xx.2

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I get that address, too, if my autoDHCP fails. So there must be no valid connection to the ISP.

This is the difficult area of using drivers for rare devices. One way out for you is to try popularly used LAN card, like one of the Realtek (RTL) cards (sometimes, the older it is, the better your chances). If you do, you will see another LAN, like eth1, and you can autoDHCP (connect) with that device._________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).

I believe the Tulip driver will work with this card, as its the same chipset as a Zoom 5001

You will have to load it manually in the network wizard, if it doesn't recognise it
You should see a new interface, like eth0, or eth1, if it is successful, then try dhcp to auto-configure an IP address

From the first post I understand that the network device is eth0, so the correct driver for the card is loaded probably.
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The antenna must connect automatically, as I have never seen anything on the screen indicating that I need to initiate the connection in any way. (The only way I know of to turn the connection off is to pull the Ethernet cord out of the jack)

I believe that I may have the IP address for the antenna in my notes. (Entering this IP into my web browser brings up the browser-based configuration interface for the antenna.) Or maybe its the IP listed as "Default Gateway" in the output of ipconfig in Windows.

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You could set manually the eth device at f.e. 192.168.xx.2

Would doing this mean the ISP would see me using a static IP address rather than a dynamic one? I do not want to incur extra charges for a static IP address.

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